News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Where Pot Entrepreneurs Go When the Banks Say No. Parent comment

Re:Where Pot Entrepreneurs Go When the Banks Say No by dx034 on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:34AM (#16076978)
I agree with AWS but how did FBA solve problems for amazon internally?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Where Pot Entrepreneurs Go When the Banks Say No by BookmarkSaver on Thursday January 18, 2018 @07:37PM (#16183068)
You have it backwards. AWS didn't solve anything for Amazon internally (it's actually kinda funny how tricky moving internal systems onto AWS is). FBA and AWS are Amazon taking systems that they already had to build for its own use and selling them as a product/service to external companies. FBA is just a way to use a portion of Amazon's existing distribution system. AWS is a way to use Amazon's existing tech platform(s).
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Where Pot Entrepreneurs Go When the Banks Say No by uiri on Friday January 05, 2018 @02:11AM (#16077106)
Fulfillment solves warehousing, inventory, and delivery of Amazon packages. Amazon built out their own network. FBA is Amazon renting out that network to third parties - whether they sell on Amazon or on their own ecommerce site.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Where Pot Entrepreneurs Go When the Banks Say No by fencepost on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:58AM (#16077062)
One possibility related to commingled SKUs would be that they can control coverage of items in warehouses by controlling which warehouse(s) sellers and their product to.
[ Parent | on HN ]